330 Object Quotes for You to Enjoy

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. Max Beckmann

Painting Enough Object Unreal Only Abstract Make Real Means Each Hardly Things Need

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object. Meg Tilly

Myself Change Living Thinking Way Introduce See Object Contemplating Look Limited Child Being Different Then Chair Different Way Things

In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time. Michael Dirda

Time Parents Own Folks Object Pretty Case My Own Felt Comics Were Did Much Many Waste Waste Of Time Actually Things

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow. Michael Specter

Food People Few Control Organic Monsanto Way Say Hormones People Say Seeds Object Seem Tainted Most Antibiotics Often Famous Want Mean Prefer Them Organic Food Shot Full Companies Meat Pesticides Many Grow

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction. Michael Trucco

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. Michel De Certeau

Work Man Others Latter Immoral Object Lazy Longer Along Makes Does Subject Itself Dying Former Available Worked Even

The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse. Michel Foucault

Book Field Unity Relative Complex Object Variable Only Remain Constructs Simply Soon Contains Within Discourse Loses Questions Itself Hands Cannot Holds Little Basis

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously. Minoru Yamasaki

Sometimes Will Think Those Would Criticize Criticized Object Shape Look Well Then Us Reason Who Why

I do object to those who jump from political hackery to flackery and expect respect. Molly Ivins

Respect Political Those Object Jump Expect Who

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God. Moses Mendelssohn

God Nature Man Church Convictions State Relations Latter Object Insofar Both Between Well Former Actions Based

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Peace World Live Relations Our Immediate Neighbours Object Maintain Within Without Friendly Want Should Large Peacefully Cordial

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal

Art Men Object Prophecy Poetry Make Heir Then

It was Test cricket as it should be played, when the irresistible force in Allan Donald met the immovable object in Mike Atherton at Trent Bridge in 1998. And I was happy to watch from the best seat in the house - at the other end. Nasser Hussain

Best Happy Met Other Cricket Immovable Object House Force Test End Donald Irresistible Mike Should Bridge Seat Played Watch

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. Nate Silver

Work Truth Commitment Our Object Objectivity Having Point Point Of View Pursuing Outside Journalism Toward Call Without Lot Personal Personal Point Wants Them Requires View Belief

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life. Neil MacGregor

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it. Neri Oxman

Struggle Architecture Engineer Build Before Tools Drawings Out Exactly Object Advanced Like Contemporary Him Buildings How Ultimately Very Send Form Hegemony Create Used Figuring Technological

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking. Newt Gingrich

Me People Single Lost Every Sick Other Way Object Guys Attack Attacked Attacking Debates Effective Up Very Get Going Want Them Ground Who Each Now Fast Right Suggesting

Once while vacationing at my grandparent's house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky - kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn't sleep for days after that. Nimrat Kaur

Me Roof Sky Sleeping Once Out Kind Object Totally Days House Around Hovering Were After While Grandparent Sleep

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it. Nolan Bushnell

You Ego Mind Object Something Look Basically Need

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye

Service Religion Culture Understanding Approach Worship Destroy Object Tendency Idolatry Intellectual Replace Essential Forms Present

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise. Novalis

Paradise Every Object Point Center Beloved

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